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The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11
TIE EAST.

JOHN De LEON, of New York, who
claimed to be an astrologer, recently con-
victed of kidnapping young girls to ship to
Panama, was on the Sd sentenced to fifteen
years imprisonment at Sing Sing at hard
labor.
HENRY SHIPMAN shot Mrs. Josephine
Mason dead at New York on the Sd for
refusing to marry him.
In New York the river fronts were on
the Sd still practically in state of siege,
and one thousand policemen were massed
at four points with patrol-wagons ready to
act should there be trouble with the
strikers.
Ice was piled fifty feet high on the Sd in
the Delaware river near Shawnee, Pa,
and the lowlands were overflowed.
In DR.. Talmage's church at Brooklyn the
revival in progress had on the 4th resulted
in two thousand conversions
Mrs. MARK DONALDSON was shot dead by
Stephen Lamphier at Lyme, N. H., ON the
4th, who then blew out his own brains.
On the evening of the 4th the gas works
at Lynn, Mass, exploded, causing great
damage, leaving the entire city in dark
ness and killing two men.
In New York and Brooklyn the coal fam
inc was spreading on the 9th and unless
there was change many of the charitable
institutions would have to close.
THE Montreal express train on the Yer
mont, Central road was thrown into the
White river at Woodstock, VT, about tive
o'clock on the morning CT the 5th, by a
broken rail near the bridge. Four coaches
filled with people went down fifty feet and
at once took fire. Forty persons doubtless
lost their lives and forty others were
wounded
THE Philadelphia Clothing Exchange
decided on the 9Th to lock out all Knights
of Labor.
FoRTY-sIX bodies had been recovered ON
the 9TH from the recent railway wreck at
Woodstock, VT, and several more persons
were missing, among them the wife of ex-
Governor Fairbanks, of Vermont.
THE employees of the South Boston street
railway struck on the 18th for a ten-hour
day. They had been working twelve
hours.
On the 9TH the lockout inaugurated by
the clothing manufacturers of Philadelphia
against the Knights of Labor had rendered
ten thousand persons idle
CHRISTIAN f. SCHAU, who a few weeks
ago attempted to murder his wife, shot
one daughter dead and crippled another
daughter for life with bullet, hanged HIM
self on the 9TH in the Jail at Erie, Pa.
THE failure of the Dennison Paper Com
pany, of MechAic Falls, Me-, with liabili-
ties of about $3.50, 600, is announced.
No CHANGE was reported on the 9TH in
the 'longshoremen'S strike at New York,
and business on the docks was virtually at
a Stand-still
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11
WEST AND SOuTH.

THE Texas Senate passed a bill on the
4th toprohibit dealing in futures, the pen
atty for each days offense being six months
in, iail and heavy fine
On the 4th Harry McMunn, charged with
the robbery of fur store in Cleveland,
was arrested in Pittsburgh and handed over
to Captain Hoehn and Detective Hulligan,
of the former city. AT Alliance five men
entered the smoking-car, and at Ravenna
they commenced a murderous assault or
the officers, in which the latter were prob
ably fatally injured. The thief and his
friends leaped from the train aud had not
been captured
A BLOCK of seven stores at Hurley, Wis,
and the post-office and three business
places at Hastings, Neb, were destroyed
by fire on the 4th.
IN the West Virginia Legislature the
Senatorial ballot ON the 4th showed thirty.
eight votes each for Flick (Rep.) and Cam.
den Dem.).
IN the Big Sandy, the Little Miami and
the Licking rivers disastrous floods were
reported on the 4th. At Falmouth, O., dis.
tilleries and saw-mills and other manu-
factories were submerged and suffered
much loss.
DURING fire in the residence of John
Zimmerman, in Chicago, on the 4th his TWO
children, aged four ard six years, respect
lively, were suffocated by smoke
THE Alabama Senate on the 4th adopted
by vote of 26 to resolution for submit
ting to the people prohibitory amend
ment.
CHARLES. TALBOT, the hotel clerk at
Memphis who decamped recently with
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11
LATER.

| HIGH water caused many streams in Illi-
| nois to overflow their banks on the 9Th, do
| ing much damage toproperty. Most of the
| factories at Rockford were closed on ac-
| count of the food, and hundreds of cellars
were full of water. The inundation was
the most serious ever known there.
A SCHOONER was wrecked by the ice on
the Sth at Saybrook Point, Conn, and the
wife and child Ct Captain Spaulding and
two sailors lost their lives
AT the Champion mine, north of Mar
quette, Mich, five hundred men quit work
on the Sth because of the refusal of the SUI
pertendent to discharge foreman
PORTIONS of the western part of Detroit
were flooded on the Sth. At the Michigan
| car-shops and the steel spring works the
water drove over a thousand men from
work. At Grand Rapids great damage
had also been done by the rising waters.
FRANCIS MURPHY opened his gospel tenn
perance campaign in Chicago on the Sth.
THE water was three feet deep on the Sth
in the village of Creemore, Ont, and the
| first floors of most of the houses were COW
cred.
REPORTS on the Sth from Geyser Station,
M. T., were that four thousand sheep be-
longing to Hay Brothers were lost in the
late storm.
DISPATCHES of the Sth say that five thou
sand Abyssinians were killed in the recent
battles in which the Italians were defeated
near Massowah, in the Soudan
John G. LEIGHTON, for nineteen years
clerk of the municipal criminal court at
Boston, was on the Sth said to be de-
faulter to the extent of 100000.
JUSTIN MCCARTHY, the famous Irish
agitator, lectured in Chicago on the Sth on
| home-rule for Ireland.
| The police attempted to dispense Social.
istic meeting which was being held in a
brewery in Stettin, Germany, on the Sth,
and during the affray three persons were
killed and many others were wounded
On the piers at New York freight was
moved with more dispatch on the Sth than
for some. time past There were positive
indications that the strike was about to
collapse.
IL the United States Senate on the Sth
bill was reported for branch home for
disabled volunteer soldiers west of the
Rocky Mountains, and memorial was pre-
sented from New Lebanon, o., asking the
initiation of negotiations for the acquis-
ton of Canada. House bills were passed
to prohibit any agent of the Government
run HifAng Quit laOor OF prisoners, ana
to ascertain the extent and value of the
vessel fisheries of the United States. In
the House bills were passed to indemnify
certain Cinnamon for losses sustained by a.
mob at Rock Springs, and to prohibit the
importation of opium by any subject of the
emperor of China. Bills were reported
Tor the issue of subsidiary silver coin, and
liking the salaries of Civil-Service Com
missloners at 5000 per annum At the
evening session speeches were made on the
deaths of Representatives Arnold, Beach
and Dudley, of New York.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11
FROM WASHINGTON.

THE President signed the Inter State
Commerce bill on the 4th.
UNITED STATES TREASURER JORDAN adj
mitted on the 4th that Secretary Manning
was to be president and that he (Jordon)
was to be vice-president of the Western
National Bank of the city of New York
The designations of both officials were in
the hands Of the President.
In the United States there were 229 bust
ness failures during the seven days ended
on the 4th, against 23o the previous seven
days.
THE exchanges at twenty-six leading
clearing houses in the United States during
the week ended on the 5th aggregated
1906, AIS, 016, against $1,0O1, 617, 494 the pre-
vious week. AS compared with the CORE
spending week of 1886, the decrease
amounts to 8.4 per cent.
THE Commissioner of Patents in his an
nual report on the 5th shows that during
the past year Al ,442 applications for patents
were made and %, 1915 patents were issued
The receipts of the Office We 81, 154, 551 ;
expenditures, 1892, SOB.
In communication ON the 9Th to Con
gress the Secretary of War reported the
unorganized militia Of the United States at
1865 592 men.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11
THE NEWS.
Compiled from Late Dispatches
xLlxth CONGRESS.
Second Session


THURSDAY, Feb. 3-Senator Evarts in
troduced bill in the Senate appropriat-
ing SIP, 900 for the purchase OF Erlcsson' s
Destroyer and 100000 for ten enlarged
steel vessels. The credentials of Senator
Sawyer, of Wisconsin, and Senator Whit
thorne, of Tennessee, were received and
filed. A long debate took place on the
Beck Attorney bill. In the House the
Legislative, Executive and Judicial Appro-
priation bill $50, 2S6, 900, was reported. The
bill to enable the people to name their own
postmasters was adversely reported, and
the Pleuro- Pneumonia bill was discussed.
FRIDAY, Feb. 4-Bbills were passed in
the Senate to pay back to the several
States and Territories all moneys collected
under the direct tax of 1861, and to prohibit
members OF Congress from serving as at
torneys for railroads. In the House mes
sages from the President vetoing two pen
sion bills were received and the private
calendar was considered in committee of
the whole. At the evening session thirty
pension bills were passed.
SATURDAY, Feb. 5. = Sixty-six. pension
bills were passed in the Senate, as was
also the Indian Appropriation bill. In the
House the bill appropriating S182,000 for
the payment of what are known as the
Fourth of July claims was passed.
MONDAY, Feb. z. In the Senate bills
were passed. to encourage the manu-.
facture of steel for modern army and navy
ordnance and to erect gun factories. The
sumiof S21, 000,0o0 is appropriated for these
purposes. Twenty House bills were also
passed, among them being one to prohibit
the importation and immigration of for.
elgners and aliens under contract to per-
form labor. A memorial of the National
Board Of Trade in favor of general bank
ruptcy law was presented. The creden-
tails of Francis B. Stockbridge as Senator
from Michigan were presented In the
House the bill to increase the salaries OF
United States Judges was discussed, and
under the call of States large number OF
bills were introduced and referred.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11
WHOLESALE BOYCOTT.
Chicago Knights to Make a Determined
War Against Armour's Meats.

Chicago Knights to Make a Determined
War Against Armour's Meats.
CHICAGO, Feb. Sit is said that District
Assembly No. "a, since the election Of its
new radical Executive Board, has been
drawn into the movement inaugurated last
November to boycott the Armour
meat product wherever found. An in
quiry committee appointed by the board
two weeks ago has reported the names
of 2S5 butchers who are selling Armour's
meats in defiance of the Knights, and rec
ommending that they, too, be included in
the boycott for their obstlnacy. 1t is their
intention now to carry on the fight in
careful and systematic manner, even ex-
tending it to hotels and restaurants and
individuals who are found to be using
the boycotted meats. Knights and
trades-unions all over the couD-
try will be appealed to to
cooperate with the Chicago districts,
and agents will be sent out to win over all
opposition. Everything and every body,
who undertakes to thwart the movement,
will be boycotted Altogether it is the
most stupendous movement of the kind
ever undertaken, and it is doubtful if it
will receive the sanction of the order in
general. Mr.. Armour refused to talk about
the boycorG yesterday
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11

ALL that is left of the historic Fort
Duquesne, or Fort Pitt, as it was after
wards called-the little brick structure
used as the officers headquorters--is to
be presented to thes eityo Pittsburgh,
together with a small plot of ground
surrounding it, by the owner of the
property, at present residing in Lon
don, The patriotic visitor to Pitts
burgh has been for years compelled to
employ guide if he wanted to find
TINS last -emaining vestige of once
famous fortress. 1t is buried among
dihpidated tenements, itself as dilap-
idated as any of these.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11

! OLD residents of South Bend, Ind,
will doubtless recall the mysterious dis
appearance of Isaac Kahn, cattle.
dealer, fifteen years ago. A citizen
was tried for his murder and acquitted.
His supposed widow married Nathan
Goldsmith, an Illinois merchant. Her
brother in New Mexico now writes that
Isaac is alive and is about to explain
his absence.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11

! HENRY WARD BEECHER said to a re-
porter the other day: Holmes, Lowell
and Whittier are all that remain of the
Abolition party OF the past AS for my
self, found the British people had the
most absurd idea of the Importance of
my work in the cause of the emancipa-
ton of the slave. Ny services in that
matter we're always dwelt upon by
those who introduced me when l lect-
ured. / finally got to believe that two
people were alone responsible for the
emancipation of the colored people.
was one, and my sister, Mrs. Harriet
Beecher Stowe, was the other"
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11
Favors a Sweeping investigation.

WASHINGTON, Feb 5.-The Senate COM
mittee changed the House joint resolution
for an investigation of the Pacific railroad
accounts to the form of a bill and has
agreed to report it. 1t provides for a
sweeping investigation, during the prog
ress of which the Funding bill will not be
pressed. 1t provides for the protection of
the interests of the Government by au-
thorizing the President to redeem any Of
the first mortgage lien, and provides that
for the future there shall be paid to the
Government forty instead of twenty-five
per cent.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11

! NATHANIEL PIKE, once . prominent
lawyer of Damariscotta, Pa, but for
many years the miserable occupant of
howell, died recently, after refusing to
pay for medical attendance or to have
his daughter come from the West to
nurse him. In an old trunk in his
house were found bills, coins and Sc
curities amounting to $4,000. wa
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11

The planters of Kinds, Amite and
Rankin Counties, Miss, have felt COM
PEELED to give notice to emigration
agents to stop enticing the negroes to
the swamps of the Yazoo delta. From
four hundred to six hundred colored
men daily pour into Vicksburg. The
emigration from Greene County, Ala,
is the largest of all.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11

! DAVID MEREDITH, of Rich Valley,
Ind, who recently made the discovery
that he has Cherokee blood in his veins,
has received patent from the Govern
ment to rich section of land in the
Indian Territory. In the seventeenth
century one of his ancestors married
the daughter of Cherokee chief.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11

ONE of the curious condolences of
nomenclature is that the daughter of
General Logan married Mr. Tucker,
while the daughter of Representative
Randolph Tucker married aMr Logan.
Each couple have a son. The name of
one is Tucker Logan, and the other is
Logan Tucker.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11

' TIE execution in Paris of Thomas
and his wife for burning their mother
20 death took place the other day.
When the time came for the woman to
die heartrending scene occurred. The
woman struggled fiercely with the exc
cutioners and cried for mercy. She
Lad to be carried to the guillotine.
The man met his fate coolly.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11

WASHINGTON, Feb 5.-The Spanish Min
lister pronounces as authentic a recent in
terview published in Havana newspaper,
in which he IS represented as saying that,
unless negotiations for carrying out reci-
procity treaty between Spain and the
United States reach favorable result by
March 2 he faYors coercion and reprisals
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11

To illustrate the power of the i'm
agination to cure, a physician relate
that being called to the bedside of {
young farmer who was apparently al
deaths door from an attack of hic-
cough, he entered the room in a cherry,
hopeful manner, then took up the cam
die from the table and left the room,
saying: "Nobody was ever known to
hiccough in the dark" The hiccough
ceased and the patient got vel. Health
MouthLu.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11

) The death of James Nicholson, the
last survivor of the storm-beaten pas
sengers of the Forfarshire who were
rescued by Grace Darling is announced.
He never forgot that awful night.
when, as he and all in the rigging
thought, an angel with long, yellow
hair flowing in the wind appeared,
pulling vigorously to their ships side
through the storm and drift; but he
very rarely spoke of it, He, however,
had enough of the sea and for twenty
six years afterward he drove locomo-
tive on the Edinburgh & Glasgow rail
road. he was seventy-one years of age.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11

CHICAGO, Feb. while making up a
freight train Saturday morning William
Burns, switchman employed in the
Nickel Plate'' yards, had his foot caught
II frog. A train was coming, and Burns,
unable to extricate himself or to attract
help, threw himself backward, breaking
his ankle. As the train rolled by both legs
were cut off just below the knee He was
taken to the hospital, but will probably die.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11

A PARROT at Indianapolis died re-
Gently with all the symptoms of diph-
therta, after being in the room and pet
ted by the children afflicted with the
Disease. The question arises-if birds
and animals can contract the disease
can they not also impart.it?
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11

A NEW islandwas recently discovered
in the Pacific Ocean, latitude l deg. 25
min. south, longitude 143 deg. 26 min.
cast. 1t is two and half miles long,
tree-covered. ~ 1t has been named Al
lison Island, but by whom discovered
or named was not known.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11

THE Democrat, of Albuquerque, N
M, publishes a story that Jesse James,
the bandit, supposed to have been as
sassinated by the Fords, is not dead,
but is living in the wllds of Arizona,
near Phmpix
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11
Worse Than Pleuro or Cholera.

WASHINGTON, Feb. THE President has
received letter from c. NJ Clay, OF Ken
lucky. calling attention to a report that a
cargo of English Australian rabbits is at
sea, bound for the United States He says
he has made domestic livestock of all kinds
study, and that it would be better to
have pleuro- pneumonia, smallpox and
cholera spread over the United States than
to suffer the ravages which will result
from the importation Of these rabbits
The matter was referred to the Treasury
Department
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11

"A good colored clergyman in a
Southern town prayed the other day
that the indelicate might be made del
icate, the Incorporate, temperate, and
the industrious, dustrious.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11
Two Children smothered.

CHICAGO, Feb 5.-Fire was discovered
yesterday afternoon in the residence of
John Zimmerman at s6S Thirty-third street.
After the flames had been extinguished
two children of Mr.. Zimmerman, aged four
and six years, were found dead, having
beer saffocated by smoke.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11

The North Carolina Legislature has
seen fit to limit the extravaganza of it's
Governor Oy a law against offering
over four hundred dollars for the arrest
and conviction of murderer.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11

THOMAS A. EDISON, of New York,
has the honor of receiving more patents
than any other American, past or
present His applications number 7O1,
and the list is still growing.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11
These Have Become Laws.

WASHINGTON, Feb. 5.-The President has
signed the Electoral Count bill; the bill
providing for bridge across the Missis-
sIppi river at st. Louis, and the bill to pro-
vide for the muster and pay of certain
officers and enlisted men of the volunteer
forces
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11
FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE.

THREE sisters, ten, eleven and twelve
years of age, respectively, and another girl
were burned to death in school-house at
Ste Monique, Quebec, on the night of the
I'd. They were sleeping in the building
which took fire and was burned to the
ground.
FROM all the European capitals dispatches
on the 4th indicated a more peaceful out
look.
On the 9th a mob at Tipperary, Ireland,
after burning house from which tenant
had been dragged, declared that they would
hereafter tolerate no evictions.
THE French Cabinet was informed by the
Minister of Foreign Affairs on the 5th that
the outlook for international affairs was
peaceful.
On the evening of the 18th the ice carnival
at Montreal was formally opened.
Mr.. PARNELL in a speech in the House of
Commons on the 18th said the deplorable
condition of the Irish tenantry was due to
the contumacy of the British Government.
A VOLCANO recently burst forth in the
petroleum fields of Russia, sending up a
high column of fire and mud, the latter
covering the ground for square mile
In Madrid great alarm has been caused
by frequent murderous attacks upon pedes-
TRANS in the streets at night Seven per-
sons had been killed or badly wounded in
less than month
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11

CHARLESTON, ILL.,, Feb. REV. Thomas
Goodman, of this city, died Saturday morn
ing, aged seventy-nine. Rev. Mr.. Good
man preached the funeral sermon over the
remains of the late Thomas Lincoln, father
of Abraham Lincoln
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11

Mrs. SECRETARY WHITNEY's new
fbaby has been named by Mrs. Cleve-
land Frances Cleveland Whitney is
the name under which the child will
soyoW up.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11
The Citizen soldiery.

WASHINGTON, Feb THE Secretary Of
War, in communication to Congress, re-
ports the unorganized militia of the United
States at 1866, 592 men. It appears that
Arkansas, Oregon, Tennessee and Missis-
sippi have no organized forces.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11

"A gentleman the other day asked a
friend noted for her ready wit: ''What
is the first aid to the injured?" With
out hesitation she replied: can apol-
ogy, is it ?'-Bostoas Post.
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grow up

SOL PALMER, who strung the first
telegraph line out of the city of New
York is still alive, at the age of sixty
five years, and actively engaged in the
business of telegraphy.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11
Death of a Pioneer.

CHICAGO, Feb. {. William c. Stevens.
who died yesterday in this city, at the age
OF ninety, emigrated to Illinois in 1884, and
established the village of Princeville. Fifty
descendants survive him.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11

In the grave of one of the ancient
Indian chiefs at Oaxaca, Mex, re-
Gently opened, an idol of pure gold was
discovered.
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11

SPoNGE-FIsHING is very profitable on
the Florida coast this season. One
vessel took $4,000 worth in a weeks
fi,no
The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1887-02-11
Che geuusha TtIegraph.

MEs. NELLIE GRANT StRToRIs will
spend the latter part of the winter with
her mother in New York.